Interpreting for Tagore in 1920s China: a study from the perspective of Said's traveling theory.
This article will study how Xu Zhimo interpreted Rabindranath Tagore's theory during Tagore's trip to China in 1924. Taking Said's traveling theory as a model for the structure of this analysis, I explore Xu Zhimo's decisions by analyzing parallel texts and paratexts through four Saidian phases – th...
| Published in: | Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 454 - 469 |
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